Hand grip for a sports appliance

ABSTRACT

A hand grip for a sports appliance provides a hollow handle part, which is made of rubber or plastics, with a fitting hole for being inserted with a rod portion. A medium layer is embroidered with a specific figure or pattern and is integrally joined to the surface of the handle part at the time of the handle part being formed such that the specific figure or pattern embosses on the surface of the handle part.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention is related to a hand grip for a sports applianceand particularly to a handle grip of a golf club, tennis racket orbadminton racket.

2. Brief Description of the Related Art

Technique for making the sports appliance has been upgraded and demandof the user to quality of the sports appliance is stricter. In order tomeet the demand of the user to quality related to subjective factorssuch as design of shape, color and brand and the demand of the user toquality related to objective factors such as material, strength, volume,center of gravity and moment, the manufacturers and the designersendeavor to research and development for improving the sports appliance.It is known that the user has to hold handle of the club or the racketwhile playing golf, tennis or badminton and it is very important thatcomfortable feeling while the user holding the handle is very helpfulfor the movement of hitting ball once the reaction force transmits tothe hand via the handle.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, the traditional handle 10 usually is made ofrubber or plastics by means of plastic injection molding with FIG. 11such as directional indication, special figure and symbol or trademark.Thus, a forming mold with preset recesses and projections has to beprepared so as to obtain the FIG. 11. However, the rubber handle 10provides unfavorable feature of liquid absorption so that sweat out ofthe hand caused by sport taking is unable to be absorbed and vaporized.As a result, it is easy for the hand to slip from the user's grasp whilehitting the ball. Further, it is easy for the rubber handle 10 to becomedeformed and slit with aging. In addition, the recesses and projectionsin the mold for creating the FIG. 11 are unable to change unless theyare reworked or a new mold is replaced. Under this circumstance, theproduction cost increases disadvantageously.

The preceding deficiencies are undesirably experienced by the user whilethe rubber handle 10 is in use. Meanwhile, the deficiencies are alsoimproved targets endeavored by the designers of the manufacturers.

Referring to FIGS. 3 and 4, surface of the handle 10 is adhered a gauzelayer 12 at the time of fabricating the handle 10 to increase both slipresistance and toughness thereof for overcoming problems concerninginsufficient slip resistance and aging of material, which exist with thetraditional rubber handle 10. But, arrangement of the gauze layer 12results in the directional indication or the specific figure is unableto be formed at the surface of the handle 10 such that the directionalindication or the figure has to be printed or sprayed onto the handle 10independently afterward to complicate the production process andincrease tedious work. Furthermore, the gauze layer 12 attached to thehandle 10 makes the appearance and color matching dull to seriouslyinfluence consumer purchase desire.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In order to solve the preceding problems, an object of the presentinvention is to provide a hand grip for a sport appliance and the handgrip has a preset figure or pattern with beautiful appearance andanti-slip and comfortable held surface.

Accordingly, the hand grip for a sport appliance according to thepresent invention provides a hollow handle part, which is made of rubberor plastics, with a fitting hole for being inserted with a rod portion.A medium layer, which is embroidered with a specific figure or pattern,is adhered to the surface of the handle part or is implicit under thesurface of the handle part at the time of the handle part being formedsuch that the specific figure or pattern is capable of embossing on thesurface of the handle part.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The detail structure, the applied principle, the function and theeffectiveness of the present invention can be more fully understood withreference to the following description and accompanying drawings, inwhich:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the conventional hand grip for a golfclub;

FIG. 2 is a semi-sectional view of the conventional hand grip for a golfclub shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of another conventional hand grip for agolf club;

FIG. 4 is a semi-sectional view of the conventional hand grip shown inFIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a hand grip for a golf club according tothe present invention illustrating a medium layer being detached fromthe handle part;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a hand grip for a golf club according tothe present invention illustrating the medium layer being joined to thehandle part; and

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a hand grip for a golf club according tothe present invention illustrating another embodiment thereof.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Referring to FIGS. 5 and 6, a hand grip for a sports appliance accordingto the present invention includes a hollow handle part 20 and a mediumlayer 30. The handle part 20 is made of rubber or plastics with afitting hole 21 for fitting with a rod portion 22 of the sportsappliance. The medium layer 30 is embroidered with a specific figure orpattern and the medium layer 30 is a thin layer sheet made of such asgauze or rubber sheet capable of being embroidered with threads 31. Thehandle part 20 is formed with the medium layer 30 in a way of the mediumlayer 30 being adhered to or being implicit at the surface of the handlepart 20 and the figure embosses on the surface of the handle part 20.

The thread 31 with a specific figure or pattern can be a embroiderydistributed with points, lines or a plane based on where the user holdsthe handle part 20 as shown in FIG. 7. Alternatively, a beautiful totemor figure, a personalized mark, character or trademark can beembroidered instead. Besides, a single color or multiple color threadscan be used for embroidering the character, figure or pattern. Thepreceding beautiful personalized pattern, figure, character andtrademark are belonged to non-technical arrangement. Of course, thethreads 31 embossing on the surface of the handle part 20 to show suchas direction or position being held and provide functions such asanti-slip, liquid absorption and comfort feeling can be arrangedtechnically. Further, the threads 31 are capable of increasing toughnessof the handle part 20 and overcoming problem of material aging.Furthermore, once the figure or pattern has to be changed, it is onlynecessary to change the embroidered threads 31, for instance, thethreads 31 can be processed with computerized embroidering, such thatthe same mold tool for forming the handle part 20 can be used repeatedlyinstead of the mold tool of the conventional fabrication way beingchanged all the time.

It is appreciated that a hand grip for a sports appliance according tothe present invention provides the threads 31 with preset figure orpattern embossing on the surface of the handle part 20 for the handlepart 20 being anti-slip, liquid-absorbed and comfortably held. Inaddition, the beautiful pattern in association with color matching iscapable of enhancing value and quality of the sports appliance.

While the invention has been described with referencing to a preferredembodiment thereof, it is to be understood that modifications orvariations may be easily made without departing from the spirit of thisinvention, which is defined by the appended claims.

1. A hand grip for a sports appliance comprising: a hollow handle partbeing made of rubber or plastics with a fitting hole for being insertedwith a rod portion; and a thin medium layer being embroidered with atleast a specific pattern and attached to said handle part; characterizedin that said medium layer integrally formed with the outer surface ofsaid handle part at the time of said handle part being fabricated suchthat the specific pattern embosses on the outer surface of the handlepart.
 2. The hand grip for a sports appliance as defined in claim 1,wherein said medium layer is made of cloth, rubber or a thin sheetcapable of being embroidered with threads for producing said pattern. 3.The hand grip for a sports appliance as defined in claim 1, wherein thethreads are distributed over said medium layer to constitute a pluralityof points, a plurality of lines or a plane and the embroidered patternprovides a share of a totem, figure, mark or character with a singlecolor or multiple colors.